Handle protector



March 4, 1924. 1,485,465

A. R. MITCHELL HANDLE PROTECTOR Filed Sent. 7, 1922 Patented Mar. 4, 1924.

UNITED "STATES ARTHUR It. MITCHELL, or s'r. LoUIs, MIssoURLassIGNoR l'ro' CHICAGO, ILL'INoI's.' 7,

iassajs HANDLE PROTECTOR.

ft-'Application led Septemberf', 1922. Serial No.586,`5,95

To all whom t may 'Gnoerm Be it known that LjARTHUn R. MITCHELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain newk and useful Improvements in Handle Protectors, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

My invention consists in the novel construction and combination o f parts hereinafter particularly described and distinctly claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved handle-protector for coffee and tea-pots, percolators and similar cooking utensils, which are usually provided with wooden handles that are burned off or weakened when such utensils are used upon an open-top range and there subjected to the heat of the flame.

In the drawings,

Fig. l is a side-elevation, partly in section, of one form of my invention, applied to a tea-pot or similar utensil, sitting upon a portion of the top of a gas-stove.

Fig. 2 is a detail front-elevation of the guard detached, and showing the corrugated flame-guard in section.

Fig. 3 is a top plan-view of the guard, detached from the utensil.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary detail view of the utensil and its handle, having my invention applied thereto..

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 4, but illustrating a modification of the means used in attaching the guard-hanger to the handle of the utensil, and

Fig. 7 is a front elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 6, the horizontal attachingportion of the handle being shown in section.

The numeral l designates the utensil, such as a coffee-pot, which is provided with the usual wooden handle 2, the horizontal attaching-portions 3 of which have their inner ends attached to or secured in metal seats 4 secured to the utensil in any suitable manner, as by soldering or riveting.

Heretofore, the lower portion of the said wooden handle 2 has been subjected to the direct heat and flames from the gas or other burner 5 of the stove 6, as illustrated in Fig. l, and has been burned ofl or so badly damaged as to necessitate renewal in a short time.

To prevent this I have provided a guard or protector 7, made preferably of sheet metal, and having horizontal corrugations 8, to strengthen the O'uard, and to intercept the heat and flames, cool them` off by the increased cooling-surfa'ce of said corrugations, and to conduct the cooled products Ofcombustion away from said handle. See Fig. 2. The upstanding inner ends of said corrugations 8 are adapted to contact with the adjacent vertical attaching-plate 9, and prevent bending or breaking of the device, when the latter is 'accidentally brought into forcible contact with the stove-top or other object, in setting-down the utensil carrying the handle protector.

Said corrugated guard 7 is provided at its inner end or edge with avvertical attachingplate 9, that is preferably formed integral with said guard, and has a hole or perforation 10 in its upper portion, through which is passed the usual handle screw or bolt 11, to secure the guard in proper position.

In the construction shown in Figs. l to 5, inclusive, the said attaching-plate of the guard is clamped between the said metal seat 4 and some adjacent part by the said screw or bolt 11; but the attaching-means may be varied, as in the modified construction shown in Figs. 6 and 7, which will now be described in detail.

In said modified construction (Figs. 6 and 7), the upper portion of the said vertical at taching-plate 9 has an integral or attached splitclamp or clamping-ring 12, whichis securely held in position upon the cylindrical horizontal attaching-portion 3, that holds the lower portion of said handle 2 in position on the utensil.

Said clamping-ring 12 is adjustably clamped in place on said handle attachingmember 3 by means of opposite perforated ears 14 and a bolt l5, so that said ring may be fixed in a position nearer to or farther froml the utensil, as desired, to move the guard 7 outwardly or inwardly until it occupies the most efficient position to keep the heat and flames away from the handle 2.

The guard may be spoon-shaped if desired; in which case the said corrugations 8 JoHNoBEnivIaIER-or i might be omitted; or other shapes may be given to said guard, to fit it to different shapes of handles.

A handle protector of the class described having a portion adapted to be detachably connected to a handle and another portion arranged at an angle thereto to serve as a heat defiector, and the last said portion being 10 provided with corrugations which extend into the first said portion and yadapted to reinorce the last said portion at its connection with the first said portion.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ARTHUR R. MITCHELL. Witnesses HENRY L. HIGDON, JosnrHrNE GOETTEN. 

